Isidor popper



(No Model.) I. POPPER.

' CANOPY FRAME.

No. 459,647. Patented Sept. 15, 1891.

i V/l/I/lI/I/ 7/ Ill/IL 1 A TTORNE YS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISIDOR POPPER, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

CANOPY-FRAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,647, dated September 15, 1891.

Application filed June 18, 1891- Serial No. 396,762. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISIDOR POPPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in a Canopy, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a canopy the various parts of which can be easily separated and rigged up for use, and which when separated can be conveniently transported.

The peculiar and novel construction of my canopy is pointed out in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view. Fig. 3 is a par tial view of a modification.

I11 the drawings, the letterAdesignates two U-shaped frames, the vertical shanks a of which are provided with feet b 0, while the horizontal bars d of said frames are provided with depressions 6. With these frames are combined a series of traverses B, and in the example shown in the drawings each of these traverses is provided with two eyes f large enough to admit the bars (Z and render the traverses B susceptible of being slid longitudinally along the same. In the example represented by the drawings I have shown three traverses, one of which rests upon the feet 0 c of the side frames A A, while the eyes f of the two remaining traverses engage the depressions e in the horizontal bars d of the frames, and by thus disposing the traverses the side frames A A are retained in upright positions and a canopy is formed for the support of a mosquito-net.

In order to insure the steadiness of my canopy when the same is rigged up for use, I combine with the feetc c a rigid slat O, which may be made of wood or any-other suitable material and which-is provided with suitable eyes to engage the feet 0 0. These eyes may consist simply of holes g, Fig. 3, bored into the ends of the slat C, so that when the feet 0 c are made to engage these holes and one of the traverses B is slid down into the position shown in Fig. 3 said feet are retained in engagement with the eyes. In the example shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the eyes for the feet 0 c consist of staples h 71, secured in the slat O.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that my canopy can be readily taken apart and packed up in a convenient bundle for transportation, and that it can be readily rigged up for use either indoors over a bed or lounge or in the open airover a chair,lounge.

that the traverses can be slid longitudinally along the bars into engagement with the bends or depressions thereof, substantially as described.

2. A canopy-frame consisting of a rigid slat 0, having eyes, a pair of U-shaped bars provided with laterally-projecting feet 0, engaging the eyes of the rigid slat, a series of traverses formed with eyes, through which the bars extend, one of such traverses being adapted to slide on the bars to retain the laterally-projecting feet in engagement with the eyes of the slat, substantially as described.

A canopy-frame consisting of a rigid slat having eyes at its opposite end portions, a pair of U-shaped bars having laterally-projecting feet 0 and formed with bends or depressions e, traverses having eyes engaging thebends or depressions,and atraverse having eyes engaging the bars to retain the laterallyprojecting feet in engagement with the eyes of the rigid slat, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISIDOR POPPER.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

